Post by CrabbitIDEA is a trademark of Ascom Tech AG. All other registered andunregistered trademarks in this documentare the sole property of their respective owners.Licensing and Patent InformationThe IDEA cryptographic cipher described in U.S. patent number5,214,703 requires license from AscomTech AG for commercial use.Limitations

Could that be what SCOStar are alluding to with their "had no right to use"claim? If you're creating a commercial product you need a license for IDEA(which presumably they bought if they use IDEA in DriveCrypt). However, fornon-commercial (freely available) software you don't need a license, a factthat either escaped them or that they're deliberately ignoring.

Post by CrabbitIDEA is a trademark of Ascom Tech AG. All other registered andunregistered trademarks in this documentare the sole property of their respective owners.Licensing and Patent InformationThe IDEA cryptographic cipher described in U.S. patent number5,214,703 requires license from AscomTech AG for commercial use.Limitations

Could that be what SCOStar are alluding to with their "had no right touse" claim? If you're creating a commercial product you need alicense for IDEA (which presumably they bought if they use IDEA inDriveCrypt). However, for non-commercial (freely available) softwareyou don't need a license, a fact that either escaped them or thatthey're deliberately ignoring.Peter.

Good point. Going to call Ascom (local call) and ask them if SecurStarhas acquired the appropriate license for IDEA.